Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
deranger@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The amount of niche info that would have been found searchable forum posts in years prior, that has now gotten sucked up into Discord where it can’t be found, fucking blows.
And imagine if public facing forums weren’t mostly dead because of the “necroposting” hate moderator brainworm
Oops this discussion from 2017 is the number one google link for your niche topic ? Well, too bad, post in new and maybe in five years it will be #2 post on google for that topic.
Who put the nerds with no friends in charge of human social interaction ‽
Yeah. Closing threads after a few days or getting mad at users for replying to old posts is stupid and bandwagony.
I don’t know what you mean by “necroposting” hate moderator brainworm". Care to elaborate one what this I and why it is bad?
It’s very common for forums to have rules against posting in a thread that hasn’t seen any activity for an arbitrary amount of time. When you do that, you will often cause a thread that has fallen from the front page to bump back to the top of the front page. It’s not clear why this is a problem, though. Maybe regulars just dislike seeing old topics brought back up?
It’s the snowball effect.
Most people can’t think for themselves, so they just do what everyone else is doing.
Post in a old thread, and often mods will immediately yell at you and close the thread for having committed the crime of necroposting. Which only makes visible the old post for the minuscule but devoted part of the userbase that actually waits in the “thread by last post, chronological order view”. Those people by definition, want new stuff and are annoyed by the old thread messing up the feng shui of their post order. Probably an OCD thing.
This is mostly because those old forum software lack a “thread by creation date, chronological view”.
So they close those discussions that happen on the timescale of years. They close the discussion that are google’s top links. Then they get bored waiting for new and leave for discord. Where nothing is recorded nor searchable. So all this effort and knowledge goes right down the drain.
Well, forums are not real time, and that’s what most people these days want apparently.
So, on to the alternatives:
Element / Matrix:
Revolt Chat
Well, forums are not real time, and that’s what most people these days want apparently.
I think people use discord where it’s a bad fit not because it’s what most people want, but because it’s what’s familiar, free, and already in front of them.
If I understand correctly, you are proving my point by saying people chose Discord over others, and then you list their reasons.
No, I am disputing your claim that “that’s what most people these days want apparently.”
Obviously, a lot of people use Discord, but I think you’re mistaken about their motivations. They didn’t choose it because they think forum-style communication is inferior to real-time chat. We can see that by the popularity of Reddit over Discord’s lifetime. Rather, they chose Discord because it’s what was offered (along with heavy marketing), and because it was convenient.
I just use chatgpt, a sufficient surrogate for the rest of humanity. At least as it pertains to knowledge before 2023.
Don’t worry, I’ve got a copy and I’ll host it all on my Discord!
Carnelian@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Absolute tragedy tbh, discord won’t be around forever. I weep for all the game knowledge that will be lost
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
There is, and there has never been value behind discord’s closed doors. Don’t waste your words there, it is like talking to the wind.